 The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 51Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 379 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 էջ
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea. • — something you can set up, and bow... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 էջ
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in/the idea — something you can set up, and bow down bfefore, and offer a sacrifice to. . . ." He... | |
 | N J Loftis - 1973 - 132 էջ
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. ...... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 էջ
...obviously even more in need of justification than the merchant seaman. But what justification can there be? 'What redeems it is the idea only... An idea at the...back of it; not a sentimental pretence, but an idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to.' This seems to be a return... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 էջ
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only."16 Notice not only the explictness of the indictment but also the use of "blind" and "darkness."... | |
 | Rob Nixon - 1992 - 240 էջ
...African tales, Naipaul finds contemporary counterparts to the weak colonials, "unredeemed by an idea, not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea," people, in Naipaul's words, "too simple for an outpost of progress." 38 Reading "An Outpost of Progress"... | |
 | G. W. Trompf - 1994 - 574 էջ
...the taking it away from those who have a different or slighdy flatter nose than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.' Joseph Contrad Heart of Darkness 'For good and ill belong to man alone, when he stands alone on the... | |
 | Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo - 1995 - 324 էջ
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...pretence but an idea and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ... (31-32) The colonist,... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 էջ
...imperialists themselves as a 'tribe' who superstitiously worship in a sort of elevated ancestor cult: 'What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - 308 էջ
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" (7). Conrad's fetishistic... | |
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